We Are Electrical Beings – Part 2

We Are Electrical Beings – Part 2 – Our Electrical Environment Has Changed

Five years ago, I wrote my first blog called “We Are Electrical Beings.” The central idea was simple: every thought, heartbeat, muscle contraction and nerve impulse depends upon tiny electrical signals flowing throughout our bodies.

That hasn’t changed.

In fact, the more I read, the more amazed I become by just how electrical we really are.

Author Bill Bryson in his book A Short History of Nearly Everything, describes our cells as resembling “a vast teeming metropolis,” filled with constant activity and a ceaseless hum of electrical energy. He reminds us that the food we eat and the oxygen we breathe are converted into electrical energy inside our cells. Although each individual voltage is tiny, if the electrical gradients inside our cells were scaled up, they would be comparable to the electric fields found within a thunderstorm.

Think about that for a moment.

Every one of us carries billions upon billions of tiny electrical events every second of every day. Life itself depends on them.

But recently I’ve begun thinking about a different question.

Not whether we are electrical beings.

Rather…

What has happened to the electrical world around us?

For almost all of human history, our ancestors lived under the same electrical conditions that existed in nature.

They experienced sunlight, lightning, the Earth’s magnetic field and naturally occurring atmospheric electricity. These were the electrical conditions under which human biology evolved over hundreds of thousands of years.

Then something extraordinary happened.

Beginning in the late 1800s, electrical power grids began spreading through cities. During the twentieth century came widespread electrification of homes, followed by radio broadcasting, television, radar, computers, cellular networks, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and thousands of other electrical and wireless technologies.

Viewed against human history, this transformation happened almost overnight.

For roughly 300,000 years, humans lived without continuous exposure to 50 or 60 Hz electrical systems. Yet for most of us today, we are surrounded by electrical wiring and electrical devices twenty-four hours a day.

Whether or not this change matters biologically is an important scientific question.

One story has stayed with me.

My wife, Dr. Lisa Raskin, studied Ayurveda under the renowned Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra.

Growing up in rural India, Vaidya Mishra had never lived around electrical infrastructure. When he later began seeing patients in London, he repeatedly noticed an unusual pulse pattern that he had never encountered before.

Unable to identify it, he called his father in India and described what he was feeling.

His father’s answer surprised him.

“Lightning.”

The pulse resembled what they had traditionally observed in people exposed to lightning.

Yet these patients had never been struck by lightning.

They were simply living in London.

Vaidya Mishra eventually concluded that the extensive electrical infrastructure surrounding the city was producing a physiological pattern unlike anything he had experienced growing up in a village without electricity. Years later, after working with people immersed in modern technology, he believed the pattern had become even more pronounced.

Whether one agrees with his interpretation or not, the timing of his observations is fascinating.

This was before cell phones.

Before Wi-Fi.

Before most of today’s wireless technologies.

His observations centered primarily on the electrical environment itself.

That story prompted me to look at our electrical history in a completely different way.

When people debate the possible biological effects of electromagnetic fields, we often talk as though humanity has always lived this way.

We haven’t.

Our electrical environment has changed dramatically during the lifetime of only a few generations.

That doesn’t automatically prove harm.

But it certainly raises reasonable questions that deserve careful scientific investigation rather than immediate dismissal.

As someone who has spent years measuring electrical and electromagnetic fields inside homes, I have seen enormous differences between one environment and another. Some homes have relatively low levels of exposure, while others contain wiring errors, elevated electric fields, unusually high magnetic fields or significant radiofrequency radiation.

Equally interesting is that people respond differently.

Some notice nothing.

Others report symptoms they believe improve when their exposure changes.

Science continues to investigate why those differences exist.

Perhaps one day we’ll fully understand the mechanisms involved.

In the meantime, one fact remains beyond dispute.

We are electrical beings!

Perhaps it’s time we paid a little more attention to the electrical environment in which those billions of tiny electrical signals must function every moment of our lives.

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⇒ Sources & Further Reading:

• The BioInitiative Report ( https://bioinitiative.org/ )
• Environmental Health Trust Summary: https://tinyurl.com/2s38t84y